The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 7 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with one institution being included for the first time.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 106 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 173,835€ and the average fee is 1,640€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)
- Institut national polytechnique de Toulouse
- INSA de Lyon
- Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle
- Université de Bretagne Occidentale
- Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale
- ENAC - École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (new)
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 25 | 38618 | 1545 |
| Springer Nature | 15 | 28535 | 1902 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 13 | 20942 | 1611 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 11 | 21807 | 1982 |
| Elsevier BV | 7 | 9155 | 1308 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 3 | 4845 | 1615 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 7112 | 2371 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 3 | 4288 | 1429 |
| AAAS | 2 | 8022 | 4011 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 4969 | 2484 |
| ASTES Journal | 2 | 900 | 450 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 4078 | 2039 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 2 | 4000 | 2000 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 2488 | 2488 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 2168 | 2168 |
| Biology Centre, AS CR | 1 | 180 | 180 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1679 | 1679 |
| ESG | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| IEEE | 1 | 1511 | 1511 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1287 | 1287 |
| Magnolia Press | 1 | 215 | 215 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1633 | 1633 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 550 | 550 |
| Puspa Publishing House | 1 | 100 | 100 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 612 | 612 |
| Scientific Societies | 1 | 959 | 959 |
| The Electrochemical Society | 1 | 214 | 214 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 2092 | 2092 |
| The Science and Information Organization | 1 | 376 | 376 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
